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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), like diabetes, hypertension, cancers, and mental health conditions, are the leading cause of early deaths around the world. Every year, we pay the price of inaction: USD $2 trillion in lost productivity and health care costs, and 43 million lives lost to a treatable or preventable condition.Yet, there is hope: NCD solutions offer a whopping 19:1 return on investment—every step forward or faster will mean saving more lives and spending less.In today’s turbulent landscape, there is a risk that leaders might look at the problem of NCDs and think, “this can wait.” In this new position paper, we argue why this view is a missed opportunity and urge leaders to prioritize three key NCD financing actions:Increase total resources for health, including by repurposing spending on unhealthy productsMake the health budget go further with efficient win-win solutions for NCDs and beyondTrack and show the flow of NCD spending, from budget to real-world benefit

Using human-centered design, PATH partners with ministries of health to solve an important problem—how do we increase access to safe insulin administration that is essential to high–quality diabetes self–care and clinical care?

Special Newborn Care Units (SNCUs) are essential for delivering intensive care to sick and low-birth-weight newborns, where they play a key role in improving survival outcomes. To strengthen SNCUs, PATH supported state governments in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh by providing essential equipment and capacity-building for health care providers. We conducted assessments and helped identify service-delivery gaps, leading to tailored action plans focused on training and skill enhancement.

PATH’s Mother-Baby Friendly Initiative Plus (MBFI+) is a holistic model designed to strengthen systems of care for small and sick newborns (SSNBs) and their mothers. The model implemented by PATH in India, Nepal, and Kenya integrates Kangaroo Mother Care, nurturing care, psychosocial and lactation support, human milk banking, and malnutrition management.

This seven-minute video provides a brief tutorial on how to use PATH’s Vaccine Cost Calculators for countries eligible for co-funding from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. These Excel-based tools are available in English, French, and Spanish and offer an easy way to compare the costs of certain vaccination programs (either for a new introduction or a product switch) with each vaccine product available to Gavi-eligible countries. The video is in English, with French and Spanish subtitled versions also available.The video explains how to use the calculators for pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and rotavirus vaccines specifically for Gavi-eligible countries. The tools allow country-level decision-makers and implementers, as well as technical assistance partners, to input local data and then compare estimated vaccination program costs for different vaccine products and presentations, exploring multiple vaccine options at once. The calculators enable users to compare the estimated cold chain volume and financial costs of different vaccination programs annually and for a total period of five years. Users also can compare costs for up to three different scenarios of multi-vaccine use for countries that plan to use more than one product at the same time. All cost estimates are provided separately for the country perspective and the combined country and Gavi perspective.